Former Apple Employee Shares Incredible Story of Accidentally Stealing Steve Jobs' MacBook From His Office

[atomic.flip]

Guess you could say he chooses Form over Function...

And welcome to Orange County, California!

Thanks, we’ll be here all week! LOL

 

[eoblaed]

He has a white board in his office, which one of his daughters made some drawings on.

I have the same, haha. I think those drawings are permanently etched for how long they’ve been there

Based on Steve’s home office, which had quite a messy desk, I would assume the same for the work office in Cupertino.

So, the part about it being sparse might be exaggerated.

Curiously enough, try as hard as I can, my home office desk is always a clutter, but my desk/office at work is pristine. I think it’s because at the house, ‘home’ stuff gets added to the work stuff and I don’t have convenient ways to easily file/store it all and it quickly becomes too much, even within a week or two of me cleaning it up, while at work it’s much easier for me to stay ahead of physical clutter (most correspondence/notes/etc is electronic) and so I can keep it perfect, every day.

 

[Whathappened]

Steve had a reputation for being a jerk, but he was nice to a very geeky 23 year-old me when I went to Cupertino for Genius Training in 2008. He was behind me in line at Caffe Macs and I didn't even realize it... he saw my Apple retail shirt and asked what I did in the store, told him I was a new Genius, he told me and the two other Geniuses standing next to me to work hard, do excellent for our customers and to be careful driving back to Bubb (the training lab). Then Steve walked off and met up with Jony who had his daughter with him, and the three walked off... I remember thinking that little girl is probably hearing about iPhones we wouldn't see for years.

Yeah he was nice to people that meant nothing to him and often had no respect for his colleagues, employees and people he”bought” as he liked to call it.
So you were standing in a line and neither you or anyone realized Steve Jobs was in that line, too. And he even spoke to you. Sounds like a true story, really..

 

[Blackstick]

Yeah he was nice to people that meant nothing to him and often had no respect for his colleagues, employees and people he”bought” as he liked to call it.
So you were standing in a line and neither you or anyone realized Steve Jobs was in that line, too. And he even spoke to you. Sounds like a true story, really..

If you've ever spoken to Mac Geniuses that trained in Cupertino circa 2002-2010, you'd realize how often this happened at Caffe Macs.